← Fame through time900-999

The 10th century

Whose working lives fell in the 10th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.

Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 10th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

1Pope John XII937-964 · Italy · Religious Figures7 decades
2Pope Leo VIII915-965 · Italy · Writers0 decades
3Pope Lando900-914 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
4Pope Benedict V900-965 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
5Pope Leo VIdied 928 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
6Pope John XI910-936 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
7Pope John XIIIdied 972 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
8Pope Benedict IV900-903 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
9Marozia892-936 · Italy16 decades
10Pope Leo VIIdied 939 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
11Pope Benedict VIdied 974 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
12Pope John XVIIdied 1003 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
13Romuald951-1027 · Italy · Religious Figuresnot measured-
14Pope John XVIIIdied 1009 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
15Pope Agapetus II900-955 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
16Pope Benedict VIIdied 983 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
17Pope Stephen VIIdied 931 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
18Pope Marinus II900-946 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
19William of Volpiano962-1031 · Italy · Architects0 decades

How to read these rankings

Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.